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Minimalist and Linux noob, but also a masochist so I installed Arch.
(sh.itjust.works)
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Until now the easiest experience for me I actually had was Arch. You have to do everything yourself but i found it way easier to fix things in Arch than in any other distro I used.
Somewhere I read that it didn't have an installer which turned me off for a while, and then I realized that you just need to "archinstall" from the live ISO and I was off and running in minutes.
Wish I had this information last night. Would have saved me like 3 hours.